In March of this year a post made it to the front page of Hacker News regarding Tiny Tapeout(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376645). Here, they had made a process where you could submit custom, miniature silicon designs to a subset of a silicon shuttle for just $100.

I was already using LLMs to write Verilog for my research, so I was inspired to start another thread exploring if they were yet reliable enough to design whole chips. They were, and I right now have christmas tree LEDs blinking and controlled from a micro designed by ChatGPT and taped out by Efabless!

My blog post explores the whole journey as it happened, and links to the various repositories, paper, and webinars along the way.